South Park is an animated television series that hit the silver screen in 1997. Created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the series utilizes the lives of its South Park residents as a vessel for awesomely witty and often satirical commentary on the current social and political climate of the United States. While universally offensive, some of the show’s most popular targets are Mormons, Jews, blacks and Barbara Streisand. In my opinion, the creators of South Park posses a remarkable talent for drawing upon the essential ridiculousness of America’s current cultural nature. After basing a particularly hilarious series of episodes on the recent BP oil spill, the first culprit of season 15 was Apple. Released just in time for the debut of the revolutionary white iPhone and in weeks following the sleek and slender iPad 2, Parker and Stone take Apple’s domination of the modern technological market to a heightened extreme. As I myself am guilty of mass-Apple consumption, I could not help but relate this Steve Jobs craze illustrated in the town of South Park, Colorado. Combining this iAddiction with the disgusting imagery donated by the movie The Human Centipede (which I unfortunately had already seen), Kyle gets roped into a human-iPad fusion by not reading the persistent and obnoxious “terms of use agreement” on his iTunes account. Without giving away too much, I must say that once the laughter and general queasiness subsides, its hard not to think twice about haphazardly submitting ones soul to Apple’s next big thing.
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South Park is an animated television series that hit the silver screen in 1997. Created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the series utilizes the lives of its South Park residents as a vessel for awesomely witty and often satirical commentary on the current social and political climate of the United States. While universally offensive, some of the show’s most popular targets are Mormons, Jews, blacks and Barbara Streisand. In my opinion, the creators of South Park posses a remarkable talent for drawing upon the essential ridiculousness of America’s current cultural nature. After basing a particularly hilarious series of episodes on the recent BP oil spill, the first culprit of season 15 was Apple. Released just in time for the debut of the revolutionary white iPhone and in weeks following the sleek and slender iPad 2, Parker and Stone take Apple’s domination of the modern technological market to a heightened extreme. As I myself am guilty of mass-Apple consumption, I could not help but relate this Steve Jobs craze illustrated in the town of South Park, Colorado. Combining this iAddiction with the disgusting imagery donated by the movie The Human Centipede (which I unfortunately had already seen), Kyle gets roped into a human-iPad fusion by not reading the persistent and obnoxious “terms of use agreement” on his iTunes account. Without giving away too much, I must say that once the laughter and general queasiness subsides, its hard not to think twice about haphazardly submitting ones soul to Apple’s next big thing.Future Trends?
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